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Holo Cards Tutorial

5 screens, all with their own unique setups and beautiful widgets, combine to bring you a homescreen that’s both functional yet minimal. Each page (info, play, home, news & apps) displays its info on a white card that’s placed on a grey background.

Part 1: Before you begin

Once you have downloaded and installed all the apps below, here is what you need to do with certain files:

1. Place .mtpref files from HC_Text.zip in the MinimalisticTextPreferences folder in your sdcard directory.
2. Place ‘home—1358621776.xml’ from Fonts.zip to the Simple Text/styles folder in your sdcard directory.
3. Place the 2 Roboto fonts from Fonts.zip into a folder that you use for fonts (might have to be a sub-directory)
4. Place both Image folders (you must extract them) onto your phone, as you will be needing them for wallpapers, etc.

You may use gestures to show/toggle the notification bar or app drawer.

Part 3: Wallpaper

Method 1: Using Desktop VisualizeR (Good for a rooted Nexus 4)

1. Make sure Wallpaper Scrolling is OFF.
2. Apply the grey background included in the images folder, selecting the “Crop” icon and then “Portrait” when applying the wallpaper.
3. Create a Desktop VisualizeR widget (any size), make it take up the whole screen, select it, change the icon to the 1 of the 5 ‘cards’ provided in the images folder, depending on what screen you’re on.
4. Do this for all 5 screens.

Part 4: Dock Settings

1. Hold down on the homescreen – Nova Actions – Jump to Page – 1.
2. Place it at the start of the dock.
3. Repeat for all 5 pages.
4. Hold down on the first one – Edit – tap the image – Icon Pack – Simple Text.
5. Select the icon displaying ‘home’, rename the text to ‘info’, then menu – Save Icon.
6. Repeat for each icon (info, play, home, news, apps)